HARTFORD -- A proposed state energy plan is generating some friction because of recommendations promoting more natural gas use.

Once completed, the plan is intended help state leaders devise strategies for expanding energy choices, lowering utility bills, safeguarding the environment and creating jobs in clean energy.

Heating oil dealers complain that the draft plan unfairly promotes natural gas -- a claim that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy disputes. Members of the Independent Connecticut Petroleum Dealers Association have come out to the hearings to make their objections heard.

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